Windshield panel and weather sill



March 9 1926.

E. G. SIMPSON ET AL WINDSHIELD PANEL ANDI WEATHER SILL Filed March 17, 1924 4 tl, i925.

s'rrss Parar ortica;

EMOBY GLENN STI Raimi AND ALBERT HABERER, 'OF DETROT, MTCHTGAN, ASSIGNORS TO FISHER BODY CQRGRATON, OF BETBOIT, MICHIGAN, A `GO,RYlEtA'JI()N OF NEW Yoan.

TNDSHTELD PANEL AND SLL.

application inea March 17, 1924. serial No. 699,843.

To ZZ whom t may concern.'

Be it known that we, Eimer GLENN Siirson and ALBERT Hanssen, citizens of the United States, residing` at Detroit, in the county oi' .frayne and State ot Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Windshield l Panels and Teather Sills, oli which the following,l is a speciiication.

This invention relates to a windshield channel and a weather seal. Tt is the object of the present invention to provide a windshield channel which can be easily and cheaply constructed and which will provide a suitable weather seal 'for a window which can be 'aised and lowered.,

Tn the drawings `z Fig. l is a cross sectionot the channel and a portion of the sill.

2 is a. similar view` showing the channel in engagement with the weather strip.

Fig'. 3 is a section showing;` how the assembly ot the glass and channel is eltec-ted.

Fig. -l is ay perspective ot a portion of the weather strip as the same is manufactured.

Fie'. 5 is a perspective of a portion of the weather strip in posit-ion to be used.

lu closed body construction it has been 'tound more desirable to have the windshield panel lirst lift and then swing. The construction that has been Vin almost universal use comprises a vchannel that is arranged to tit tightly over a tapered steel fence. This construction is described and claimed in the Allmend Patent No. 1,147,836. This construction has been highly satisfactory in making' a weather tight tit and preventing rattling but is open to the objection ot very Otten the channel becomes rusted upon the tence especially in the winter time when the lower panel is never raised. Tt therefore becomes almost impossible to dislodge it. Furthermore, the channel shown in this construction is relatively expensive to construct as compared with the channel and the weather strip shown in the present application.

A channel oit this kind is ordinarily manutactured by passing through suit-able rolls and suitable rolls and dies. TtV is manuactured rapidly by these rolling' machines and it is therefore desirable to have the design ot the channel as simple as possible to nel have Vbeendisclosed and `patented but so tar as I am aware, the windshieldchannel here described and claimed is the simplest the necessary thickness to hold a long panel of glass and prevent the same tronibreaklng. Y

The conventional' windshield channel is that has yet been brought out-and which has quite similar. to that shown in the ,Allmand patent above referred to, ordinarily, however, without the V Vgroove at the bottom. Such a. channel has been welded, has been formed of seamless tube, has been loc-ln seemed, as shown in the McIntosh Patent No. 1,349,684, and recently most of it has been made with what is called ala-p seam.

N ow, we construct a vsemi-tubular windshield member, but in place of employing.

a` bottom for the channel itself, the bottom ot the tube itself is buckled up for a double purpose. This bottom is designated a and comprises a shallow inverted V; the sidesl oit the channel are somewhat,elliptical andy these are designated b. yThe edges of the strip l are bent downto form the side walls of the channel and are designated c." The bottom of the channel is not formedin the custom- Vary way byv a web from one otthese side tube which is adapted to rest on the opposite sides of the fence weather strip d.

This tence or weather strip is preferably constructed ot readily distortable material such as rubber which is hollow to make it more easily distortable. Tn order to make a weather strip which may be easily and quickly manufactured, we form vthis weather strip out of a strip or ribbon such as shown in Fig. l with tongues and .grooves e and 7 on the bottom ot the strip near the edges and a bowed central portion g The edges of Vthis strip can be bent together and the tongues and grooves interlocked as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 5 to provide the tence or CII Weather strip having a solid stem or anchor portion .and a. hollow sealingportion ofeircular cross section.

When the Window drops down upon this Y.as shown in Fig. 2the shallow .V groove lin. thelbottom of the semi-tube contactsboth sides of the Circular sealing portion of the strip; this forms an efectivefeontact area and allows a large portion of the strip to forcibly engage up in thenpexbfxthe V Vto absolutely seal the joint at thisvpoint und prevent-either the wed-ther7 water or dust blowingtlrrougli.

"Ill-ieglassY assen-[bly in the channel is lshownfin 3; iarcorlrstrip 7c is adapted toffit over the bottom: of the glasspanel; the

glass together vWith `thestrig,may then' be forced in between the side Wells of the chan- Lnel; 'The corky strip itself isl highly com'- 'press'ible and consequently the dimensions `aresuch:tlizttwhen theglass is'flttedin the fcork str-ip is squeezed `in pretty tightly.

Then further, 1 the side WellsI of the channel being Iabsolutely free arefezifpeble vof yielding `tolta small extent:fnictfurthera Vform :1 very -good grip upon-the aglass.

Tith lvthis arrangement ity is unneeessarylto use cement. vThe ,yieldable-'cork strip and fthe yyieldable Ysidey Walls ofthe ehannel will grasp the glass'and a-tthesametime the eorl;l strip forms a cushion for-the' bottom of the= glass. The 1 apex 4of fthe `'shallow 1V l groove forms f a support for the cork Channel'.

' Yl."InWindshieldendwindow construction, "the eombinationfo'f a, 'fence of deformable rmateriel` and-e1 metalehnnnel "formedV of a 'strip ofrmet'lshaped to "formashallow in- 'vertedV groovein-the bottom and'provided `vnel and* having the middle portion of the stripbuolled up to form a vshallow V groove to support the bottom of the glass and form a groove to fit over-the vdeformable fence.

3. In Windshield and `Window construction, ametnl Windshield channel comprising single piece having side Walls foldedover to, form the inside Walls of the' glass retaining channel but terminating-at the bottom of said channel the middle portion of the strip being'bnclzled up at thel center'to form en yinverted V groove upon which 'the bottom of the glass rests.

4:. In windshield und Window construction', the combination o'f Aa fence of deformable' materiel having e hollow sealing portion ende metal nfindshield:panel provided with an inverted VV groove, the toplof the `V groove fforming :i support for the glass and thebottom of said V groove arranged to fit over the deformable fence for distorting the same.

.In testimony whereof Wefafix our 'signw tures.

.EMORY GLENN SIMPSON. ALBERT 

